New Keynote Speaker: Prof. Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Prof. Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor
Department of EECS
Department of Statistics
AMP Lab
Berkeley AI Research Lab
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Michael I. Jordan is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Masters in Mathematics from Arizona State University, and earned his PhD in Cognitive Science in 1985 from the University of California, San Diego. He was a professor at MIT from 1988 to 1998. His research interests bridge the computational, statistical, cognitive and biological sciences. Prof. Jordan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been named a Neyman Lecturer and a Medallion Lecturer by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He was a Plenary Lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018. He received the Ulf Grenander Prize from the American Mathematical Society in 2021, the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2020, the IJCAI Research Excellence Award in 2016, the David E. Rumelhart Prize in 2015 and the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award in 2009. He is a Fellow of the AAAI, ACM, ASA, CSS, IEEE, IMS, ISBA and SIAM. In 2016, Professor Jordan was named the “most influential computer scientist” worldwide in an article in Science, based on rankings from the Semantic Scholar search engine.

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_I._Jordan

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Biographical highlights

  • Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1998-present
  • Professor, MIT, 1988-1998
  • Honorary Doctorate, Yale University, 2020
  • Honorary Professor, Peking University, 2018-present
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, 2017-2019
  • Chaire d’Excellence, Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris, 2012
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences
  • Member, National Academy of Engineering
  • Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Fellow of the AAAI, ACM, ASA, CSS, IEEE, IMS, ISBA and SIAM
  • Elected Member, International Statistical Institute
  • AMS Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling, 2021
  • IEEE John von Neumann Medal, 2020
  • Plenary Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, 2018
  • IJCAI Research Excellence Award, 2016
  • David E. Rumelhart Prize, 2015
  • IMS Neyman Lecture, 2011
  • ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award, 2009
  • SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Prize, 2008
  • IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award, 2006
  • IMS Medallion Lecture, 2004